As you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
BLACK ELKAs you walk upon the sacred earth, treat each step as a prayer.
More Black Elk Quotes
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I cured with the power that came through me. Of course, it was not I who cured,it was the power from the Outer World.
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The visions and ceremonies only made me like a whole through which the power could come to the two-leggeds.
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Know the Power that is Peace.
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Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us.
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It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.
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And I saw that the sacred hoop of my people as one of many hoops that made one circle.
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Everything an Indian does is in a circle, and that is because the power of the world always works in circles, and everything tries to be round.
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But if the Vision was true and mighty, as I know, it is true and mighty yet;for such things are of Spirit, and it is in the darkness of their eyes that men get lost.
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They told me I had been sick twelve days, lying like dead all the while, and that Whirlwind Chaser, who was Standing Bear’s uncle and a medicine man, had brought me back to life.
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Each family is a circle, and those family circles connect together and make a community, and the community makes its circle where it lives on the Earth.
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Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.
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The center of the universe is everywhere.
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If I thought that I was doing it myself, the hole would close up and no power could come through. Then everything I could do would be foolish.
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Even the seasons form a great circle in their changing, and always come back again to where they were.
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I think I have told you, but if I have not, you must have understood, that a man who has a vision is not able to use the power of it until after he has performed the vision on earth for the people to see.
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